Poker Condoms

Pro H.O.R.S.E.

In the blue corner we have TJ Cloutier, two-time main event runner-up and hall of famer. Cloutier has amassed six WSOP bracelets and around $8m in tournament winnings.

It’s easier to win the lottery these days than it is the main event at the World Series of Poker. It’s still the same format as it was when I first started out – meaning you had to try and beat your own table – but nowadays you have to do it so many times more, and you have to bet the field against the known players. If you took 100 of the best amateurs and pitted them against 100 of the best pros, the pros would win every time.

(Read the full post about ‘Pro vs Pro: H.O.R.S.E.’…)

Barry Shulman: The 2009 WSOPE main event champ.Barry Shulman became more than just the owner of CardPlayer Magazine and father of 2009 November Niner Jeff Shulman in London early Friday morning.

He became the 2009 World Series of Poker Europe main event champion, beating a final table that pundits are labeling one of the best the WSOP has ever seen.

“When I moved to Vegas, I took up poker to try and prove I could beat the best in the world,” said Shulman, who won a Stud 8 bracelet in 2001.

“I got pretty good for a while and I proved it about 10 years ago. I haven’t been playing very hard since then. (Read the full post about ‘Shulman ships 2009 WSOPE title’…)

November Niner James Akenhead.Rife with intriguing story lines, a dream final table was set at the 2009 World Series of Poker Europe main event in London Wednesday.

Featuring two members of the November Nine and the father of a third, one of poker’s hottest young players and one of the game’s most enduring superstars, plus three more previous WSOP bracelet winners, Thursday’s final nine at the Casino at the Empire appears to be an instant classic.

Ivan Demidov shocked the poker world making the final table of the 2008 WSOPE main event just a few short months after booking his seat in the WSOP’s first November Nine. (Read the full post about ‘November Niners, superstars fill dream WSOPE final’…)

As the third annual World Series of Poker Europe progressed, the buy-ins for the events rose and the fields grew tougher. Thus was the case for Event 3, the £5,000 pot-limit Omaha tournament. In the last one before the Main Event at the Casino at the Empire in London’s Leicester Square, players gathered for their second-to-last chance at a gold WSOP bracelet.

The first day of the event saw 154 players enter the tournament for a £770,000 prize pool, and each competitor was given 10K in starting chips and a 10K chip for rebuying more chips during the first three levels if needed. The interesting structure spurred the usual thinning of the field, and only 36 players were still seated at the end of the day, including Sandra Naujoks, Tom Dwan, Noah Boeken, and Howard Lederer. But (Read the full post about ‘Vilmunen Defeats Lederer to Win WSOPE Event 3 PLO’…)

Isabelle Mercier has left Team PokerStars Pro.

After five years as a member of Team PokerStars Pro, the French-Canadian poker superstar said she is saying goodbye to one of the most lucrative sponsorship deals in the poker industry to “take on new projects.”

Following a series of emails back and forth with PokerListings, Mercier sent out a press release claiming she “currently has extensive projects, both nationally and internationally, in the world of poker,” and, “is not about to give up her life’s passion.”

No specific details regarding the projects were included. (Read the full post about ‘Isabelle Mercier quits Team PokerStars’…)

Do you like Sit ‘n Go tournaments? Would you like to play in them AND have the chance at a big payday of $50,000? If so, you can do just that – at Titan Poker!

Yes it’s true – you could walk away with $50,000 or more by participating in the Fort Knox Jackpot Tournaments. The six-player, $50 + $9 buy-in Sit n’ Go Fort Knox tournament begins just as soon as six players take their seats at the table. With only six players, the non-stop action is super hot as you battle for the gold and that is what makes the Fort Knox tournaments special.

The Fort Knox tournaments offer you a shot at the Fort Knox progressive Jackpot that grows bigger each week until a lucky player wins it. Tit (Read the full post about ‘Players Grab the Gold in Titan Poker’s Fort Knox Jackpot Tournaments’…)

Will FullFlush bring it?Some of the best poker players in the world will be facing off at the PKR Heads-Up Grand Slam tournament now set for London this October.

The invitational event will take place at 3 Mills Studio Oct. 8-10 with 32 players battling it out for a first-place prize of $100,000.

Organizers are promising a deep structure that will let skilled players rise to the top. (Read the full post about ‘FullFlush, durrrr headline PKR heads-up tournament’…)